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divided

American  
[dih-vahy-did] / dɪˈvaɪ dɪd /

adjective

  1. separated; separate.

  2. disunited.

  3. shared; apportioned.

  4. (of a leaf ) cut into distinct portions by incisions extending to the midrib or base.


divided British  
/ dɪˈvaɪdɪd /

adjective

  1. botany another word for dissected

  2. split; not united

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Other Word Forms

  • dividedly adverb
  • dividedness noun
  • quasi-divided adjective
  • quasi-dividedly adverb
  • self-divided adjective
  • semidivided adjective
  • undivided adjective
  • well-divided adjective

Etymology

Origin of divided

First recorded in 1555–65; divide + -ed 2

Example Sentences

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AI inference computing is divided into two main tasks: pre-fill, or the process by which a model interprets a user prompt, and decode, by which the model generates a response, one word at a time.

From The Wall Street Journal

The participants were then divided into four groups.

From The Wall Street Journal

Sports, at its finest, can act as a cultural common denominator for our ever-fractious and divided polity.

From Los Angeles Times

The sounds of a deeply divided crowd washed over her.

From Literature

That net asset value is then divided by the number of shares in the fund in order to arrive at the net asset value per share, which we will call the NAV.

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